Reinders Brothers Inc v. Rain Bird Eastern Sales Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Gateway Eastern Railway Co. v. Terminal Railroad (1994), 126 Wis. 2d 16 - Swan Sales Corp. v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. (1985)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Oyler v. Adams · Brown v. Chote · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Roth v. Bank of the Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o restraining order or preliminary injunction shall issue except upon the giving of security by the applicant, in such sum as the court deems proper, for the payment of such costs and damages as may be incurred or suffered by any party who is found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the plaintiff will have an adequate remedy at law or will be irreparably harmed if the injunction does not issue; (2) whether the threatened injury to the plaintiff outweighs the threatened harm the injunction may inflict on the defendant; (3) whether the plaintiff has at least a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits; and (4) whether the granting of a preliminary injunction will disserve the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.